Convince me that this is worth playing
Look, I've done the tutorial, and played what I think is about half the prologue. I finished the Witcher 1 the other day, and this game just feels like a massive downgrade so far.
-I had massive issues with cursor lag/delay. I've fixed it (I think), but it either remains when I'm doing arm-wrestling or that part of the game is just bad.
-The controls seem convoluted as all heck compared to the Witcher 1, especially with that silly ctrl-menu you have to use.
-Meditating to use potions? Really?
-While buttonmashing LMB to "load ballista" or "aim ballista", all I could think of was "press F to pay respects". That dumb pseudo-QTE is ploughing dumb, and the prospect of playing through a game using that sort of nonsense is not compelling to me.
-Not to mention the times where I'm thinking "this could have been a cutscene...", such as when following the king up the siege-tower. All you're doing and all you CAN do is follow him. There is NOTHING to interact with except ladders. And when Foltest takes command over a ballista in a cutscene, hands you the spyglass, the game gives you control to look around over a very limited area through your spyglass, but all you can do is click to start the next cutscene. How dumb is that? What was the point of having control to look around? I've tried clicking while looking at different things through the spyglass, and the outcome is the same, no matter where you look. "Aim 3 degrees higher". It's like that stupid part in Dragon Age:Inquisition where you're just pressing W for 5 minutes while walking through a snowstorm...
So I know I've played pretty much nothing of the game, so please, tell me it gets better and that it's worth it. Is the combat going to be fluid once you get used to it? Are there good hotkeys or was to change keybinds? Looked, but couln't find any. Is there going to be more dumbass pseudo-qte-nonsense and cutscenes that aren't but should be?
Look, I've done the tutorial, and played what I think is about half the prologue. I finished the Witcher 1 the other day, and this game just feels like a massive downgrade so far.
-I had massive issues with cursor lag/delay. I've fixed it (I think), but it either remains when I'm doing arm-wrestling or that part of the game is just bad.
-The controls seem convoluted as all heck compared to the Witcher 1, especially with that silly ctrl-menu you have to use.
-Meditating to use potions? Really?
-While buttonmashing LMB to "load ballista" or "aim ballista", all I could think of was "press F to pay respects". That dumb pseudo-QTE is ploughing dumb, and the prospect of playing through a game using that sort of nonsense is not compelling to me.
-Not to mention the times where I'm thinking "this could have been a cutscene...", such as when following the king up the siege-tower. All you're doing and all you CAN do is follow him. There is NOTHING to interact with except ladders. And when Foltest takes command over a ballista in a cutscene, hands you the spyglass, the game gives you control to look around over a very limited area through your spyglass, but all you can do is click to start the next cutscene. How dumb is that? What was the point of having control to look around? I've tried clicking while looking at different things through the spyglass, and the outcome is the same, no matter where you look. "Aim 3 degrees higher". It's like that stupid part in Dragon Age:Inquisition where you're just pressing W for 5 minutes while walking through a snowstorm...
So I know I've played pretty much nothing of the game, so please, tell me it gets better and that it's worth it. Is the combat going to be fluid once you get used to it? Are there good hotkeys or was to change keybinds? Looked, but couln't find any. Is there going to be more dumbass pseudo-qte-nonsense and cutscenes that aren't but should be?